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First Principles: Facts Are Stubborn Things and Whatever May Be Our Wishes, Our Inclination or the Dictates of Our Passions, They Cannot Alter the State of the Facts and Evidence
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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Tagged Alter, Dictates, Evidence, Facts, First Principles, Inclination, John Adams, Passions, State, Stubborn Things, Wishes
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First Principles: Republics Are Created By the Virtue, Public Spirit and Intelligence of the Citizens
“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, … Continue reading
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Tagged Banish, Betray, Citizens, Created, Dare, Fail, First Principles, Flatter, Honest, Intelligence, Justice Joseph Story, Order, Profligate, Public Council, Public Spirit, Republics, Reward, The People, Virtue, Wise
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Thought For the Day: Affliction is Often That Thing Which Prepares An Ordinary Person For Some Sort of An Extraordinary Destiny
“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
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What Is Jeopardy?
What Is Jeopardy?by Michael DoyleIt’s a strange thing, pop culture’s popularityI, among the many, revered moments of JeopardyPredictably catchy theme played on hesitationAs each of us hoped we just might have the questionThat matched the answer showing up on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Trebek, Angel, Answer, Best of the Show, Bid, Board, Coax, Confess, Dignity, Fact, Final Jeopardy, Forward, Full Worth, Glow, Gracious, Handled It, Harsh, Heartfelt, Hestitation, Host, I Cried, Know, Life, Match, My Life, Mystery, Next, North, Obsess, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pop Culture, Popularity, Question, Quiet, Revered, Shadow, Show, Sigh, Star, Stoic, Them, Warm Heart, What is Jeopardy, What Is Life For?
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First Principles: Religion and Good Morals Are the Only Solid Foundation of Public Liberty and Happiness
“Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.” – Samuel Adams
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Tagged First Principles, Good Morals, Happiness, Public Liberty, Religion, Samuel Adams, Solid Foundation
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Thought For the Day: A People Who Extend Civil Liberties Only To Preferred Groups Start Down the Path Either to Dictatorship of the Right Or the Left
“A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.” – Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)
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Thought For the Day: Liberty Lies In the Hearts of Men and Women. When It Dies There, No Constitution, No Law, No Court Can Do Much To Help It
‘Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can do much to help it.’” – Judge Learned Hand
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Tagged Constitution, Court, Dies, Heart, Law, Learned Hand, Liberty, Men, Thought For the Day, Women
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First Principles: We Should Be Unfaithful To Ourselves If We Should Ever Lose Sight of the Danger To Our Liberties, If Anything Partial…Should Infect the Purity of Our Free…Elections
“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” – John Adams (1797)
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Tagged Danger, Elections, First Principles, Infact, John Adams, Liberties, Lose Sight, Ourselves, Unfaithful
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In My Thanksgiving For You
In My Thanksgiving For Youby Michael DoyleI don’t have to wait for another dayTo tell you, I am thankful in every wayFor all those things you give to meThat’s putting it maybe too simplyFrom the day you quietly said helloMy … Continue reading
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Tagged Always Be the Same, Another Day, Closer, Counting My Blessings, Day, Every Way, For Worse Or For Better, Forever, Glad, Hello, Known, Met, My Heart, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Say My Name, Simple, Tell the World, Thankful, Thankgiving, Together, Wait, You
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First Principles: In Regard To Religion, Mutual Toleration In the Different Professions There Is What All Good and Candid Minds In All Ages Have Ever Practiced and…Inculcated On Mankind
“In regard to religion, mutual toleration in the different professions thereof is what all good and candid minds in all ages have ever practised, and, both by precept and example, inculcated on mankind.” – Samuel Adams
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